mountainriver

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by mountainriver 5mo ago
uh huh, how's the trampoline working out?
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
This is it
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
Have you tried writing Rust? I often hear this from people who haven’t tried it. I’ve found absolutely no issues over python and everything works 100x better
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
I think the only use cases are when it wraps low level C++ libs like ML libraries, and yes those are extremely difficult to reproduce
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
I loved from writing all my code with LLMs from Python to Rust. I’ve seen absolutely no difference, most of the time I couldn’t even tell you which it’s writing in. My programs are faster and more reliable than they’ve ever been.
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
Why? Go has a GC, is basically incompatible with C and very limited overall
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
This is it, people are acting like bad code wasn’t written before. My wife and I were full on laughing about it in bed the other night of all the absolutely horrible code we’ve seen written and how people actually think LLMs are worse than
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
There are also just problems where the code is the hard part…
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
Can you not review it?
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
Exactly, I don’t know why we are even arguing over this anymore. People basically don’t write code today so why not use the best languages? Go is handicapped in significant ways which were specifically designed so that it was easier for hum
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by mountainriver 5mo ago
This is the simplest and almost certainly correct answer. I’ve seen this at a number of public companies, and is a reason I hate working for them. These decisions are always unbelievably short sighted and ruin companies in the long term.
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
>Well, sorry. It's desirable because it's developing no.... it's not... what an incredibly naive take. Why don't you just leave out every nice small town in a beautiful location. "Who cares about keeping thing be
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
lol yeah history isn't this, humans are dumb and follow herds to whatever end. Agents will be much more rational
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
yes the next five years, and no agent in 3 years will be writing python outside of ML. Except if some fool is directing them otherwise. What benefits does it possibly offer them other than "I think python good"
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
>It's fast enough for many use cases. That doesn't mean that there is no room for optimization, but this is far less a deciding factor these days. Everyone says this but its not really true. Every team I've seen do this im
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
I feel the same way, I'm constantly cycling sleep meds
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
FreeCAD is the worst. Thanks for building this!
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
Weed is great for my anger and sleep. I’ve never found as good of a sleep medicine for someone who wakes up too early. I also had debilitating anger in my teens and weed really helped calm that down. I’ve been off it for years at a time and
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
We kinda do do this with hybrid mamba transformers
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
This thread makes me happy
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
That is quite literally what you are implying
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
Yes most languages are terrible except the ones that are actually performant and good like Rust. Do you really think AI agents of the future will be coding in Python??? What advantage would that possibly give them? That's the only laug
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
> it's performant enough for 99% of use cases My last two companies went all in on python and really regretted it. It's performance and concurrency primitives really hurt as you scale
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
Yeah ML is the one of the only spaces I could see it living on, but even then doing it in C++ isn't that much harder for an LLM
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
Yeah that's sort of fair today, although we have switched over most of our org to Rust and it hasn't been much of a problem. The LLM can usually explain small parts of code with high accuracy if you are unsure. Overall the switch
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
What?! It's one of the slowest languages on the planet, it's not type safe, it has not real concurrency. I can't believe people say this with a straight face
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
"There is no downside to endless growth" ... lol
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
>But the latter point is just plain wrong. Dense housing IMPROVES traffic congestion and shortens commutes, always, everywhere, markedly. And it's for a bleedingly obvious reason: pack people in closer together and they don't h
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
Yes there is a cost to things like a bunch of congestion, decrease of natural spaces and generally soulessness. To paint this as only good is an insane position
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by mountainriver 7mo ago
We could but it’s not always just “good” to make things dense. My hometown has had a huge push to add more housing to make things more affordable. What happened? Rents went down for a couple years then right back up. Except now the city has

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